Improvement in garden-cultivators



UNITED STATES PATENT @Tieren UALEF. RUGGLES, OF HENDERSON, KENTUCKY.

IMPRVEMENT IN GARDEN-CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,56, dated May 30, 1871.

To all lwhom .it may concern Beit known that I, GALEB F. RUGGLES, of Henderson, in the county of Henderson and in the State of-Kentucky, have vinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Garden- Gultivator; anddo hereby declare that the following `is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had'to the acco1n.

panying drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon making a part of this specilik cation.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a garden-culy tivator, as will be hereinafter more 'fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe `its construction andr operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my cultivator; Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the helve to which the plow is att-ached; and Fig.

3 is a rear view of the shovel-plow.

A represents the bar or beam to which the plows are attached. This bar is bent in the center, 4and the two ends running for a cert-ain distance' parallel with each other. The eX- treme ends are then bent outward at right angles, as shown in Fig. l, forming supports a a for the plows. The bar a is curved, as shown, making the bent center higher than the ends in order to pass over large vegetables without injury to th'e tops. B represents the upright i or helve, to which theplow is attached, said helve havin g a mortise at its upper end through which the end a of the barA is inserted, andthe `helve then held at any point desired by means of a thumb-screw, b. Below the mortise the helve graduates or diminishes in thickness,

gradually giving sufficient strength to bear three bolts to attach the plow, and it has the proper curvature for attaching both shovel a-ndmold-board.` The mold-board C has the Aside.

ordinary curvatureand is secured by three bolts, d d, having screw-taps on the under The land-side D is connected with the mold-board, and bears against a shoulder, e, on the side of the helve. VA shovel-plow, E,

is attached to a helve in the same manner, and

said shovel has an inclined bar,f, on its under side so as to give it the proper slant orinclination. The plows being movableupon the ends ofthe bar A, they can be set so as t0 work close to or oft' from the row, as desired. A handle, G, is attached in the center of the bar A, as shown.

yThe shovelplows are used lirst for cultivat- V ing the vegetables, and then the right-and-left mold-board attached by the same bolts, and taps to turn earth from or to ridge up. The helves are beveled right and left so as to attach the mold-boards in proper position.

This cultivator may be applied as a eldcultivator by a slight change in the frame and adapting the plow to horse-power.

By applying two shovels to the arm and mold-board next to the frame, they will work out both sides of the row and cultivate halt' the middles on each side of the row.

Either double team-one horse on each side of the rowf-or tandem team, between two rows, may be used.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe combination of the bent and curved bar A, having angular arms a a, with the mor tised helves B B, which support the movable plows or shovels,and secured bythe set-screws b, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of February, 1871..

CALEB F. RUGGLES.

Witnesses:`

L. H. LYNE, WM. T. BARRET. 

